Kanhaiya Kumar likely to contest Lok Sabha polls from Bihar's Begusarai on CPI ticket; RJD to back as Joint Opposition candidate
Kanhaiya Kumar likely to contest Lok Sabha polls from Bihar's Begurarai on CPM ticket; RJD to back as Joint Opposition candidate
Kanhaiya Kumar, former president of Jawaharlal Nehru University Student Union is said to contest the Lok Sabha 2019 Elections from Bihar's Begurarai constituency. It is also said that Kumar will fight the polls on a left party CPI's candidate ticket. Kanhaiya Kumar is a native of Beehat panchayat in Begusarai district.
"If the party (CPI) decides to nominate me as its candidate from Begusarai and other grand alliance partners also extend their support, then I don't have any objection to it," Kumar told PTI.
Kanhaiya was reportedly held in February 2016 by the Delhi Police after being accused of being involved in a controversial event in JNU wherein anti-India slogans were allegedly raised. However, Kanhaiya denied the vehemently charges.
"Left parties, including the CPI want him to contest the Lok Sabha election from Begusarai in 2019 and other parties such as Congress and RJD also want him to contest the election," CPI state secretary Satya Narayan Singh said. Satyanarayan Singh said, "All Left leaders from Bihar to Delhi are in favour of his candidature from Begusarai in the 2019 Lok Sabha election."
However, Singh also stated that the Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal and others, are also to field Kanhaiya as a joint opposition candidate from the seat. An in-principle understanding has been also discussed between all the opposition parties in the same regards.
When asked if RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav to has agreed on his name, Satyanarayan Singh said, "In principle, the RJD chief has agreed to field Kanhaiya as the joint opposition candidate from Begusarai. However, an official decision has not been taken so far."
Currently, the BJP represents Bihar's Begusari in the Lok Sabha. In 2014, BJP's Bhola Singh won the seat by defeating RJD's Tanveer Hasan by 58,000 votes. Meanwhile, if believed to media reports, Kanhaiya Kumar will face-off PM Narendra in the Lok Sabha Polls from Begurarai.